How deep affection and Love is demonstrated when a patient in Coma was awakened after ten months!
“For ten months, he had been lying in a hospital bed, unconscious and unresponsive.
The injuries Mathew Taylor had suffered in a motorbike crash were so severe that his devastated family were warned he may never wake up.
But then came the phone call that would change everything. From her home in Bali 7,000 miles away, Mr Taylor’s fiancee Handayani Nurul chatted to him – and at the sound of her voice, tears began trickling down his cheek.
It was the first time the 31-year-old had shown any sign of recovery since fracturing his skull in the horrific accident on the Indonesian island.
Now, every time the phone rings, Mr Taylor reaches out his hand.
Describing the moment Mr Taylor first responded to his fiancee’s voice, his stepfather Simon Moore said: ‘He had tears in his eyes as we held the phone to his ear. She asked him something and he said a silent yes.
Then tears were coming down his face. It was brilliant.’
Now, Mr Taylor’s mother Heather calls Miss Nurul, known as Anda, and passes the phone towards her son.
Mr Moore said: ‘As soon as he hears her voice he lifts his hand for the phone. He listens to her and you can see this change in him.’
Mr Taylor, from Overseal, Derbyshire, met Miss Nurul, 27, after he moved to Indonesia in 2009 to teach English.
The couple planned to get married, but Mr Taylor was knocked down while riding a motorcycle in Bali on July 9 last year.
As well as a fractured skull, he had to have his eye socket reconstructed, using bone taken from his thigh.
Following surgery, he slipped into a coma and has remained in a vegetative state ever since.
Mr Taylor had no medical insurance, so his family were forced to raise £100,000 for him to be treated in Bali. His father, Darrell Taylor, contributed £50,000 of his savings, while Mr Moore remortgaged his home to find the remaining £50,000.